Principles of Naval Architecture
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this engineering course covering ship geometry, hydrostatics, and the calculation and drawing of curves of form. Lessons address intact and damage stability, hull structure strength calculations, and ship resistance, along with an introduction to computer-aided naval design and analysis tools. Projects include analyzing ship lines drawings, calculating hydrostatic characteristics, evaluating intact and damaged stability, running ship model tests, and performing hull structure strength calculations. Materials include lecture notes, assignments, and project descriptions drawn from MIT's mechanical engineering curriculum. The course is free to audit through MIT OpenCourseWare, with no certificate offered. It suits students who want a technical grounding in how ships are designed and analyzed, from basic geometry through structural and stability calculations, using the same methods practiced in naval architecture programs.